GRE Word List
EXEGESIS
exposition
The meaning of the word exegesis is exposition.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| puerile | juvenile |
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| crass | gross |
| terse | using few words : devoid of superfluity |
| cipher | zero |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| revoke | to annul by recalling or taking back : rescind |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |